In a subsample of a multisite stalking study (Mohandie, Meloy, McGowan, & Williams, 2006) comprising 78 offenders from one site, 77% committed new offenses within an average follow-up of 106 months (8.8 years). Over half (56%) were charged for new stalking related offenses and 33% for violent recidivism. Violent reoffending, including sexual offenses, was predicted by risk factors consistent wi...

In the 1990s, the New York City Police Department instituted a policy of arresting individuals for less serious offenses that impinge on the city's quality of life (QOL). Critics contend that QOL policing widened the net for arrest, especially among minorities. Alternatively, QOL policing could have created additional opportunities for arresting individuals from the same populations that tend t...

Data from 28 paedophilic persons seen on the occasion of forensic psychiatric assessment are presented. These persons represented a remarkable 25% proportion of all sexual offenses seen at the department of forensic psychiatry between 1986 and 1992 (n = 111). Paedophilics were on the average elderly persons who tended to have a lower education level and achieved poorer results in intelligence t...

Minor law breaking seems more and more to be a part of adolescence behavior. An important risk factor which seems to influence delinquency appears to be the socio-economic one. According to Romanian statistics, during the first six months of 2012, 1,378 minors have committed various crimes, the most common being theft, sexual offenses and violent assaults. Drug-related offenses did not reach th...

The current study used an experimental vignette ( n = 1,093) to examine the effects of perpetrator sex and age, victim on simulated juror sentencing recommendations for individuals convicted sexual offenses (ICSO). Path analyses were see if differences in punitive attitudes could be explained by perceptions dangerousness participants attached experimentally manipulated variables, as hypothesize...

The liberalization of the natural gas market in Republic Moldova determined completion Law no. 108 27 May 2016 regarding accordance with provisions Regulation (EU) No 1227/2011 European Parliament and Council 25 October 2011 on wholesale energy integrity transparency. emergence new economic social relations (viz. transparency market) conditioned Criminal Code articles 2442 ,,Manipulation market...

Adjudication of the punitive damages in law on petty offenses The article presents issues related to institution operating under Polish Code Petty Offenses. Measures provided by offenses, as a part broadly understood criminal law, should be interpreted an analogous way both these codifications. However, result changes Penal introduced 2015, there are clear differences between for Offenses and a...

The neuropeptide oxytocin functions as a hormone and neurotransmitter and facilitates complex social cognition and approach behavior. Given that empathy is an essential ingredient for third-party decision-making in institutions of justice, we investigated whether exogenous oxytocin modulates empathy of an unaffected third-party toward offenders and victims of criminal offenses. Healthy male par...

The article examines the issues of legal liability for war crimes. aims to analyze certain provisions current legislation on military offenses. author analyzes providing administrative and criminal offenses, as well draft new version Criminal Code Ukraine.
 analysis offenses shows that it needs be improved. significant increase in crime between 2014 present requires bringing statutes Armed...